Fall 2026 Events
Godwin’s Engine: Muskism and the Automation of Consent
Quinn Slobodian
September 16
9:00-10:30 am (US CT)
Online
co-sponsored event
Two Concepts of Patriotism: Nationalist and Civic
Desmond Jagmohan
September 24
5:00-6:30 pm (US CT)
Elvehjem Building, Room L150
co-sponsored event
AfroAsianist Readings of Marx
Colleen Lye
September 29
5:30-7:00 pm (US CT)
Levy Hall, Room 4281
(Im)migration, State Violence & Community Solidarity
Christine Neumann-Ortiz & Jimmy Patiño
October 1
3:00-5:00 pm (US CT)
Hybrid event
co-sponsored event
When ICE Melts
Film Screening
October 4
4:00-5:30 pm (US CT)
Labor Temple, Room 201
“Foreign” Black Women: Confronting Xenophobic Antiblackness Globally
Lorgia García Peña
October 8
1:00-2:30 pm (US CT)
Online
co-sponsored event
Learning From Our (Sex-Working) Parents: Community-Led Counter-Narratives as Liberatory Science
Kim Ye and Kimberly Fuentes Carrillo
October 13
5:00-6:30 pm (US CT)
Marquee Theatre, Union South
co-sponsored event
The Story of the American Founding and Its Impact Today
Annette Gordon-Reed
October 15
5:00-6:30 pm (US CT)
Elvehjem Building, Room L150
co-sponsored event
Casting Weimar: Selection, Surplus, and the Film Actor
Paul Dobryden
October 16
1:00-2:30 pm (US CT)
Van Hise Room 1418
co-sponsored event
Desde 1976: Education, Culture, and Community (CLS 50th Anniversary)
October 16-17
Levy Hall
co-sponsored event
Racial Fluidities and Alternative Knowledges in 21st Century Ethnic Studies
Rafael Perez-Torres, Lynn Itagaki, Michael Thornton & David Chang
October 19
1:00-2:30 pm (US CT)
Levy Hall 3204
co-sponsored event
Interventions With and After Robotics & AI
Itziar Barrio
October 22
5:30-7:00 pm (US CT)
Elvehjem Building, L150
The Origins of Western Marxism & the Colonial Question
Gabriel Rockhill
November 6
2:00-3:30 pm (US CT)
Hybrid event
What Brazil Reveals about the Global Far Right
Rodrigo Nunes
November 10
4:00-5:30 pm (US CT)
Hybrid event
co-sponsored event
Democracy, Commemoration, Peoplehood
Jason Frank
November 12
5:00-6:30 pm (US CT)
Elvehjem Building, Room L150
Community Collapse, Capital, and Lessons from Evangelical Organizing
Eric Blanc
December 3
12:00-1:30 pm (US CT)
Online
The Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) lecture series brings distinguished critical scholars and activists from around the world to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to deliver lectures in virtual and in-person settings. The VSP series enriches the campus and community in several ways. Scholars speak with expertise on a wide range of topics, very often presenting the findings of recently conducted original research. Havens Wright Center lectures are also sites of cross-disciplinary discussion among faculty and students, and they provide a context in which people from the broader community can participate in intellectually stimulating programs with scholars and activists. The Center maintains an extensive archive of audio and digital video recordings of past lectures on our website.